“When I’m not in my Petaluma Batman costume, I hear people talking about me a lot,” said the teenager. “It’s weird, but I’m glad that I have been able to entertain people and lift their spirits. I just want to inspire some good will.”

“There’s this motto, ‘a hero can be anyone,’ and it’s kind of really taken ahold of in the newest Batman movies,” said the young man to ABC News (via Huffington Post.) “I thought, ‘Well, that’s kind of neat.'”